The opendarwin .com debacle

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

Sorry, this rather old email just went whooshing out when I woke  a  
machine that had gone to sleep before sending.  I see that everyone is  
already well-aware of the google ranking issues and have already taken  
some steps to address this - sorry to revive the discussion days after  
the fact!

On Oct 27, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

>
> On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:37 AM, James Berry wrote:
>
>> I've got to believe we have better incoming links to our site, so  
>> if we better structured our site to do cross linking between  
>> categories (and perhaps stoop to the subdomain tricks he does), we  
>> could presumably improve this situation immensely.
>
> I'm told by someone who does this for a living that it's all about  
> the anchor tags, and also making sure that all the individual ports  
> are promoted appropriately on their own page / sections.  He  
> mentioned that there was a guide on google itself which described  
> how to best optimize one's site for the PageRank algorithm, but I'm  
> not able to find it just now.  What I did find were a number of  
> other sites, from the rather mathematical (http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html 
> ) to the more succinct: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/google.shtml
>
> Either way, if darwinports.com is out-ranking macports.com on  
> individual port names then I can only suspect that they're following  
> more of the principles espoused at those sites than MacPorts is, and  
> that should be relatively easy to fix if anyone is really  
> motivated. :)
>
> - Jordan
>
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